Lead contamination forces families from their homes in East Chicago

Forced to move

Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune

Nayesa Walker outside her home at the West Calumet Complex on Sept. 27, 2016. Walker and her children are among the approximately 1,000 residents — the majority of them children — of the West Calumet Housing Complex who are now scrambling to find places to live.

Nayesa Walker outside her home at the West Calumet Complex on Sept. 27, 2016. Walker and her children are among the approximately 1,000 residents — the majority of them children — of the West Calumet Housing Complex who are now scrambling to find places to live.